Example sentences for: mummy

How can you use “mummy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A non-invasive x-ray of the mummy suggests a murder plot: King Tut may have been done in by a blow to the back of the skull.

  • Also upstairs is the Mummy Room where you can find the preserved remains of some of Egypt’s most illustrious rulers.

  • Mummy Soup, With Onion

  • These beautiful wooden boxes come from the royal graves at Mawangdui, as does the museum’s show-stopper: the remarkably well-preserved silk-wrapped mummy of the Marquis of Dai’s wife, Tohou, who died at age 50 in 186 b.c.

  • When Howard Carter peered through the dusty air of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and, in his own words, “wonderful things” met his eyes, he confirmed the immeasurable wealth of the Pharaohs, and when the backer of the dig, Lord Carnarvon, died suddenly only a few months later, vox populi blamed it on the curse of the Pharaohs mummy — and Hollywood was quick to feed our fantasies.


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